Snatch cleat



' i. A; SVENSWL- SNATCH CLEAT.

APPLICATION FiLED JULY i3,192o.

Patented @ich l?, i922.

JHAN AUGUST SVENSON, OF STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN.

SNATCH GLEAT.

Application led July 13, 1920.

To all whom t may concern.

Be it known that I, JOHAN AUsUs'r SVEN- soN, a subject of the King of Sweden, and residing at Kocksgatan 26, Stockholm, Sweden, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Snatch Cleats; and I do hereby declare the followingto be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

This invention relates to a snatch-cleat, which is so arranged, that the chain during the hauling ope-ration is automatically locked in each position, the hauling operation being thus considerably facilitated. The chain may easily be disengaged from the snatch-cleat when lowering is to be eected. The snatch-cleat is preferably combined with a roller, to which the chain is transmitted when lowering is to be effected and on which the chain runs during the said op' eration.

In the accompanying drawing a snatchcleat is shown arranged in accordance with this invention. Fig. 1 is a top plan view showing the device applied to a boat. Figs. 2 and 3 show the snatch-cleat in a side view and in a plan view partially in section. l

In arms 1 and 2, extending from a baseplate, adapted to be xed on the stem of a boat, Fig. 1, two jaws 3 are provided, which are swingably mounted on pins 4f. The said pins 4L are fixed to a wall or bottom 5 connecting the arms 1 and 2 and to flanges 6 extending inward toward one another from the said arms. The jaws have a protected position in the chamber enclosed by the arms 1 and 2, the wall 5 and the flanges 6 and are properly guided in the same. Plate springs 7 are xed to the hubs of the jaws 3 and bear against the arms 1 and 2, tending to move the free ends of the jaws toward one another. The said free ends are preferably V-shaped, as shown. In the sides of the jaws facing one another grooves 12 for the links of the chain are provided, extending longitudinally of the jaws. In lugs 8 a roller 9 is journalled. rIhe snatch-cleat is mounted in the boat in such manner, that the roller 9 is located below the jaws 3 and the wall 5, consequently, has a substantially vertical position.

For the hauling operation the chain is placed on the roller 9 and between the jaws Serial No. 395,975.

3, as shown in Fig. 2. As the chain is hauled in the jaws 3 yield to every other link (having a lying position) but catches immediately behind the same after it has passed the jaws, as seen from Fig. 2. In this manner the chain is automatically locked after each hauling operation, so that one may; release the chain and get a new hold of the same. In this manner for instance the hauling in of an anchor is ex ceedingly facilitated. During the hauling in operation the wall 5 guides the chain on account of its position.

According to the drawing a roller 10 is combined with the snatch-cleat, which is journalled between the arm 1 and a third arm 11 extending from the base-plate.

When lowering is to be effected the chain is easily released from the jaws 3 by pulling the free part of the chain upwards. The chain is then placed on the roller 10, on which it runs during the lowering operation.

It is to be noted that the rollers 9 and 10 are located in suiiiciently spaced relation at the outside of the base plate 0f the snatchcleat so as to allow an anchor carried at the end of the chain to clear the side of the boat during the hauling and lowering operation, the arrangement being shown particularly in Fig. 1.

I claim:

1. A hawser guide comprising a bracket for application to the boats rail and having outboard extending projections, a normally vertical plate connecting two of the projections, a cable stopper on the plate and a guide pulley below the plate.

2. A hawser guide comprising a bracket for application to the boats rail and having outboard extending projections, a normally vertical plate connecting two of the projec tions, a cable stopper on the plate, a guide pulley below the plate and a guide pulley on one of the said projections and a third projection.

8. In snatch-cleats for chains, a base plate, spaced arms extending from the base plate, a casing carried by the arms including a bottom and side walls having inturned flanges at the forward ends, spring pressed jaws pivotallyi mounted in the casing and provided with chain receiving grooves and having V-shaped terminals, the jaws being adapted to receive and lock the chain after each hauling operation, lugs projecting downwardly of the anges and a roller r0- tatabiy mounted between the lugs and over which the chain is guided to the jaws.

In testimony whereof I have aixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

J OHAN AUGUST SVENSON.

Witnesses ROBERT APELGREN, LINNIo MEoLIUs. 

